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I wrote 'liberal, tolerant and peaceful Islam', not Muslims. We have heard this worn out apology for Islam before. I know 'liberal, tolerant and peaceful' Muslims, therefore Islam must be liberal, tolerant and peaceful. So, when you have preached the gospel at the supposedly inclusive Arab International Festival in Dearborn you have not received a similar reaction from the crowd?
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In my mind, it goes like this: "I know liberal, tolerant, and peaceful muslims, therefore I judge them to be liberal, tolerant and peaceful muslims." I don't ascribe the liberal/tolerant/peaceful tag to all muslims, though. Doing that would be naive.
I judge people on their individual merits, not whatever group(s) they belong to. For example, I know some
really dumb Marines, but I don't conclude that all marines are dumb. There's a word for this, but it escapes me right now.
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I'm curious about this 'anti-islam Christian' group. Do you have any more information on this incident? If it is like the other incidents, all one has to do to 'start a fight' at the Arab International Festival is stand in one place and preach the gospel. The fight will come to you.
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It was reported by my local news station at the time.
YouTube spits out a bunch of videos if you enter "arab american festival 2011 dearborn" in the search box. I'm not wild about YouTube because you never know if the videos have been edited and if so, how they've been edited.
I will say this though: The festival is just like any summer street carnival in Anytown, USA. There's rides, food/drink, games, arts & crafts, live music, and the occasional fight. The only difference is that this one is in the middle of an arabic neighborhood post-9/11 and it was more peaceful than the 2010 carnival in Westland, where some loser shot a guy in the leg over a spilt corndog.